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In Spring 2023 President Beck charged PMJ to work with Vice President of Student Affairs, Dr. William Watkins, and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Meera Komarraju, to begin the process of reviewing JEDI structures at 麻豆AV. The review follows the launch of 麻豆AV鈥檚 Road Ahead, strategic direction, and priorities. In the subsequent months, PMJ met with the above 麻豆AV leaders to set the foundation for the planning process. They de铿乶ed stakeholders and provided background documents for this report. The scope of the review included past initiatives addressing JEDI efforts and structure; active programs sponsored by campus units, divisions, schools, and colleges; best practices at peer institutions; and advice from leaders within and beyond a university setting.

PMJ de铿乶ed themes and goals and hosted multiple stakeholder listening sessions. Each stakeholder group was invited to meet with PMJ consultants during the Spring 2023 semester. PMJ hosted 16 listening sessions. Most stakeholder listening sessions were focused groups, departments, committees, or individuals doing JEDI work at 麻豆AV. Some groups and individuals could not join stakeholder sessions, so PMJ gathered information via an open-ended questionnaire and email. This report includes the full list of invited groups and the guiding questions (see Appendix).

General Goals of the Stakeholder Sessions

The following were the general goals of the stakeholder sessions:

1. Identify challenges and opportunities for improvement within the current JEDI infrastructure.
2. Propose recommendations for future directions of JEDI work, organizational structures, and the role of the Chief Diversity Officer.

Each listening session had extensive notes and themes collected during the sessions. The listening sessions were led by higher education consultants with extensive experience with qualitative research and JEDI topics. After gathering information from key stakeholders, Dr. Prieto, Dr. Moon-Johnson, and Nick Daily analyzed the notes and transcripts to identify key themes. In addition to notes from the stakeholder listening sessions, the consultants also gathered and analyzed information from 麻豆AV websites, reports, and other documents provided by 麻豆AV. The consultants independently analyzed the stakeholder notes, developed major themes, and then collectively created key areas of concern and growth. The major themes were discussed using literature about higher education JEDI efforts; these themes were compared to common themes from articles, practices, and research from JEDI literature nationally and internationally. As key opportunities emerged, those were categorized and shared with the 麻豆AV leaders charged with implementing this review. Once the key opportunities were identi铿乪d, PMJ consultants focused on creating recommendations to address those challenges. The recommendations can be found in Part 3 and are based on promising practices from higher education and JEDI efforts